CN116530185A

CN116530185A - Method, apparatus and storage medium for determining resource status

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Publication number: CN116530185A
Application number: CN202380008445.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭胜祥
Original assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-03-01
Filing date: 2023-03-01
Publication date: 2023-08-01
Also published as: WO2024178693A1

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, and storage medium for determining a resource status. The method comprises the following steps: the terminal device sends a first message to the network device, where the first message may include a first parameter field, where the first parameter field may be used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in the configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource may be a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on the configuration grant CG transmission mode. In this way, the terminal device can report the resource usage status of the first radio resource to the network device, so that the network device can flexibly use and schedule the first radio resource according to the resource usage status, and the utilization rate of the radio resource allocated based on the CG transmission mode is improved.

Description

Method, apparatus and storage medium for determining resource status

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for determining a resource status.

Background

In a wireless communication system, in order to reduce uplink service delay, a third generation partnership project (3rd Generation Partnership Project,3GPP) introduces a Configured Grant (CG) transmission mode, which may also be referred to as an uplink unlicensed transmission mode. By the CG transmission mode, the network equipment can configure the wireless resources used for uplink transmission in one CG period in advance for the terminal equipment, and the terminal equipment can autonomously use the wireless resources for uplink transmission under the condition that the network equipment is not required to schedule in the one CG period, so that the scheduling resources can be saved, and the uplink service time delay can be reduced. The radio resource preconfigured by the network device for the terminal device may be referred TO as a physical uplink shared channel (Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH) transmission resource (TransmissionResource, TR) CG PUSCH TR of the configuration grant CG, or may also be referred TO as a physical uplink shared channel transmission opportunity (Transmission Occasion, TO) CG PUSCH TO of the configuration grant.

Disclosure of Invention

To overcome the above-described problems in the related art, the present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and storage medium for determining a state of a resource.

According to a first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of determining a resource status, performed by a terminal device, the method comprising:

sending a first message to a network device; the first message includes a first parameter field, where the first parameter field is used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in a configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on a configuration grant CG transmission mode.

According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of determining a status of a resource, performed by a network device, the method comprising:

receiving a first message sent by terminal equipment; wherein the first message comprises a first parameter field;

determining a resource use state of at least one first wireless resource in a configuration authorization CG period according to the first parameter domain; the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal equipment by the network equipment based on a configuration authorization CG transmission mode.

According to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a terminal device, including:

a sending module configured to send a first message to a network device; the first message includes a first parameter field, where the first parameter field is used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in a configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on a configuration grant CG transmission mode.

According to a fourth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a network device comprising:

the receiving module is configured to receive a first message sent by the terminal equipment; wherein the first message comprises a first parameter field;

a processing module configured to determine a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource within a configuration grant CG period from the first parameter domain; the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal equipment by the network equipment based on a configuration authorization CG transmission mode.

According to a fifth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

Wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the method of determining a resource status provided by the first aspect of the present disclosure.

According to a sixth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the method of determining a resource status provided by the second aspect of the present disclosure.

According to a seventh aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method of determining a resource status provided by the first aspect of the present disclosure.

According to an eighth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method of determining a resource status provided by the second aspect of the present disclosure.

According to a ninth aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided a communication system comprising:

the terminal equipment can execute the method for determining the resource state provided by the first aspect of the present disclosure;

A network device that may perform the method of determining a resource status provided by the second aspect of the present disclosure.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can comprise the following beneficial effects: the terminal device sends a first message to the network device, where the first message may include a first parameter field, where the first parameter field may be used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in the configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource may be a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on the configuration grant CG transmission mode. In this way, the terminal device can report the resource usage status of the first radio resource to the network device, so that the network device can flexibly use and schedule the first radio resource according to the resource usage status, and the utilization rate of the radio resource allocated based on the CG transmission mode is improved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system, shown according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a first radio resource and a second radio resource according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating another first radio resource and a second radio resource according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram of a terminal device according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram of a network device, according to an example embodiment.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram of a communication device, according to an example embodiment.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, the same numbers in different drawings refer to the same or similar elements, unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary examples are not representative of all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with some aspects of the present disclosure as detailed in the accompanying claims.

It should be noted that, all actions for acquiring signals, information or data in the present disclosure are performed under the condition of conforming to the corresponding data protection rule policy of the country of the location and obtaining the authorization given by the owner of the corresponding device.

In the description of the present disclosure, terms such as "first," "second," and the like are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. In addition, unless otherwise stated, in the description with reference to the drawings, the same reference numerals in different drawings denote the same elements.

In the description of the present disclosure, unless otherwise indicated, "a plurality" means two or more, and other adjectives are similar thereto. "at least one item", "an item" or "a plurality of items" or the like, refer to any combination of these items, including any combination of single item(s) or plural items(s). For example, at least one term(s) may represent any number; as another example, one (or more) of a, b, and c may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or plural. "and/or" is an association relationship describing an association object, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may represent: there are three cases, a alone, a and B together, and B alone, wherein a, B may be singular or plural. The character "/" indicates that the front-rear association object is an or relationship. The singular forms "a", "an", "the" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

Although the operations or steps are described in a particular order in the disclosed embodiments or figures, this should not be understood as requiring that the operations or steps be performed in the particular order shown or in sequential order, or that all of the illustrated operations or steps be performed, to achieve desirable results. In embodiments of the present disclosure, these operations or steps may be performed in any order, without conflict; these operations or steps may also be performed in parallel; some of these operations or steps may also be performed; operations or steps in various embodiments or figures may be combined arbitrarily, as this disclosure is not limited thereto.

The following first describes the environment in which embodiments of the present disclosure are implemented.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the disclosure can be applied to various communication systems. The communication system may include one or more of a fourth generation (the 4th Generation,4G) communication system, a fifth generation (the 5th Generation,5G) communication system, and other future wireless communication systems such as 6G. The communication system may also include one or more of a public land mobile network (Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN) network, a Device-to-Device (D2D) communication system, a machine-to-machine (Machine to Machine, M2M) communication system, an internet of things (Internet of Things, ioT) communication system, a Vehicle-to-evaluation (V2X) communication system, or other communication systems.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a communication system 100, shown according to an example embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, the communication system 100 may include a terminal device 150 and a network device 160. The communication system may be used to support 4G network access technologies, such as long term evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE) access technologies, or 5G network access technologies, such as New radio access technologies (New Radio Access Technology, new RAT), or other future wireless communication technologies. It should be noted that, in the communication system, the number of network devices and terminal devices may be one or more, and the number of network devices and terminal devices in the communication system shown in fig. 1 is merely an adaptive example, which is not limited in this disclosure.

The network device in fig. 1 may be used to support terminal access, e.g., the network device may include an evolved base station (evolutional Node B, eNB or eNodeB) in LTE; the network device may also include a next generation base station (the next Generation Node B, gNB or gndeb) in a 5G network; the network device may also include a radio access network (NG-Radio Access Network, NG-RAN) device in a 5G network; the network device may also include at least one of a base station, broadband network service gateway (Broadband Network Gateway, BNG), aggregation switch, or non-3 GPP access device in a future evolved public land mobile network (Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN). Optionally, the network device in the embodiments of the present disclosure may include at least one of the following various forms of base stations, for example: macro base stations, micro base stations (also referred to as small stations), relay stations, access points, 5G base stations or future base stations, satellites, transmission points (Transmitting and Receiving Point, TRP), transmission points (Transmitting Point, TP), mobile switching centers, and Device-to-Device (D2D), machine-to-Machine (M2M), internet of things (Internet of Things, ioT), internet of vehicles (V2X), other devices that assume base station functionality in a communication system, and the like, as the embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited in this regard. For convenience of description, in all embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus for providing a wireless communication function for a terminal device is collectively referred to as a network device or a base station.

The Terminal device in fig. 1 may be an electronic device providing voice or data connectivity, and may be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), a Subscriber Unit (Subscriber Unit), a Mobile Station (Mobile Station), a Station (Station), a Terminal (Terminal), or the like, for example. By way of example, the terminal device may include a smart phone, a smart wearable device, a smart speaker, a smart tablet, a wireless modem (modem), a wireless local loop (Wireless Local Loop, WLL) station, a personal digital assistant (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), a customer terminal device (Customer Premise Equipment, CPE), and the like. With the development of wireless communication technology, a device that can access a communication system, can communicate with a network device of the communication system, can communicate with other objects through the communication system, or a device that can directly communicate between two or more devices may be a terminal device in an embodiment of the disclosure; for example, terminals and automobiles in intelligent transportation, household devices in intelligent homes, meter reading instruments for electric power in smart grids, voltage monitoring instruments, environment monitoring instruments, video monitoring instruments in intelligent security networks, cash registers, etc. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device may communicate with the network device. Communication may also take place between a plurality of terminal devices. The terminal device may be stationary or mobile, and this disclosure is not limited in this regard.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the terminal device and the network device may both support configuring an authorized CG transmission mode, which may also be referred to as an uplink unlicensed transmission mode.

In some embodiments, the network device may allocate a first radio resource for CG transmission to the terminal device based on the CG transmission mode, and notify the terminal device of all information of the first radio resource through a second message (e.g., RRC signaling or other message); after receiving the second message sent by the network device, the terminal device automatically uses the wireless resource to carry out uplink transmission in one CG period without the need of scheduling by the network device, thereby saving scheduling resources and reducing uplink service delay.

In other embodiments, the network device may allocate a first radio resource for CG transmission to the terminal device based on the CG transmission mode, notify the terminal device of all information of the first radio resource through a second message (e.g. RRC signaling or other message), and activate the first radio resource through a third message (e.g. activate DCI indication, MAC CE or other message); after receiving the second message and the third message, the terminal device automatically uses the CG resource to carry out uplink transmission in one CG period without the need of network device scheduling, thereby saving scheduling resource and reducing uplink service delay.

In other embodiments, the network device may allocate a first radio resource for CG transmission to the terminal device based on the CG transmission mode, notify the terminal device of part of information of the first radio resource through a second message (e.g. RRC signaling or other message), and send another part of information of the first radio resource to the terminal device through a third message (e.g. activate DCI indication, MAC CE or other message), and activate the first radio resource, thereby complementing all information of the first radio resource; after receiving the second message and the third message, the terminal device automatically uses the CG resource to carry out uplink transmission in one CG period without the need of network device scheduling, thereby saving scheduling resource and reducing uplink service delay.

Note that, the above-mentioned first radio resource may be referred TO as a physical uplink shared channel transmission timing CG PUSCH TO of the configuration grant, or may also be simply referred TO as a transmission timing CG TO of the configuration grant, or may also be simply referred TO as a transmission timing TO, or may also be simply referred TO as CG PUSCH Occasion. The number of symbols (symbols) corresponding to the one CG period may be determined by the network device and configured to the terminal device through higher layer signaling (e.g., RRC signaling). For example, one CG period may correspond to 14×40960 symbols at most.

In the related art, the management and the scheduling of the radio resources based on the CG transmission mode are simpler, and the requirements of new services cannot be met. For example, the communication system may also support XR (e.g. augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, AR) and/or Virtual Reality (VR)) services, where XR services are different from three existing typical services, i.e. Low latency high reliability communication (URLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (enhanced Mobile Broadband, eMBB), enhanced Machine-type communication (eMTC), and XR services have the characteristics of periodicity, high throughput requirements, and short latency requirements.

In addition, the XR service also has a certain flexibility, and the radio resources required for transmission of the XR service may not match with the first radio resources allocated by the network device based on the CG transmission mode, for example, some of the first radio resources may be idle, or some of time domain symbols of the first radio resources may be idle, which results in low utilization rate of the radio resources allocated based on the CG transmission mode.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status, according to an example embodiment. The method may be performed by a terminal device in the above-described communication system. As shown in fig. 2, the method may include:

S201, the terminal equipment sends a first message to the network equipment.

In some embodiments, the first message may include a first parameter field, where the first parameter field may be used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in the configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource may be a radio resource allocated by the network device to the terminal device based on the configuration grant CG transmission scheme.

In some embodiments, the network device may allocate N first radio resources in one configuration grant CG period to the terminal device, where the terminal device determines, according to the configuration of the network device, the N first radio resources in one configuration grant CG period, and autonomously selects to use the N first radio resources for uplink transmission or in the configuration grant CG period. Wherein, N may be any number greater than or equal to 1, for example, N may be 4. The first radio resource may also be referred TO as CG PUSCH TO or CG TO or TO.

In one implementation manner, the terminal device may receive a second message sent by the network device, and obtain all information corresponding to the first radio resource through the second message.

In another implementation manner, the terminal device may receive a second message and a third message sent by the network device, obtain a part of information corresponding to the first radio resource through the second message, and obtain another part of information corresponding to the first radio resource through the third message.

In this way, the terminal device determines N first radio resources in one configuration grant CG period by any one of the above manners.

In some embodiments, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an occupied state or an idle state.

In one implementation, the resource usage status of the first wireless resource may be an occupied status, which may be used to indicate that the first wireless resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, and if the terminal device occupies a part of or all of the time domain symbols of the first radio resource, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an occupied state.

It should be noted that, the manner in which the terminal device occupies the first radio resource may include using the first radio resource to perform signal transmission, or may also include notifying the network device to reserve the first radio resource, but the terminal device does not actually use the first radio resource to perform signal transmission.

In this way, the first radio resource that is partially or fully occupied may be indicated by the occupancy status.

In another implementation, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an idle state, which may be used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resource.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, and if the terminal device occupies a part of the time domain symbols of the first radio resource, or if the terminal device does not occupy any one of the time domain symbols of the first radio resource, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an idle state.

In another implementation, the resource usage state of the first wireless resource may be an idle state, which may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first wireless resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold.

The occupancy threshold may be any value set in advance, for example, may be 50%, 80%, or 90%.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, and a ratio of the number of time domain symbols occupied by the terminal device to the number of time domain symbols included in the first radio resource may be used as the occupancy rate of the first radio resource, and if the occupancy rate is less than or equal to an occupancy rate threshold, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be the idle state.

In this way, the resource usage of the first radio resource can be indicated by the idle state.

Note that, if one configuration grant CG period includes a plurality of first radio resources, resource usage states of different first radio resources may be the same or different. For example, the usage state of a part of the first radio resources is an occupied state, and the usage state of another part of the first radio resources is a non-occupied state. For another example, the usage state of a part of the first radio resources is an idle state, and the usage state of another part of the first radio resources is a non-idle state. For another example, the usage state of a part of the first radio resources is an occupied state, and the usage state of another part of the first radio resources is an idle state.

Note that, the occupancy state of the first radio resource may also be referred to as a first occupancy state; the idle state of the first radio resource may also be referred to as a first idle state.

In yet another implementation, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an occupied state or a non-occupied state.

Wherein the occupancy status may be used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially or fully occupied. The unoccupied state may be used to indicate that the first radio resource is unoccupied.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, and if the terminal device occupies part of or all of the time domain symbols of the first radio resource, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an occupied state; if all time domain symbols of the first radio resource are not occupied by the terminal device, the resource usage status of the first radio resource may be a non-occupied status.

In this way, the resource usage of the first radio resource can be indicated by the occupied state or the unoccupied state.

In yet another implementation, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an idle state or a non-idle state.

In one implementation, the idle state may be used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resources; the non-idle state may be used to indicate that the first radio resources are fully occupied.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, and if the terminal device occupies a part of the time domain symbols of the first radio resource, or the terminal device does not occupy any time domain symbol of the first radio resource, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an idle state; if the terminal device occupies all time domain symbols of the first radio resource, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be a non-idle state.

In another implementation, the idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first wireless resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold; the non-idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first radio resource is greater than an occupancy threshold. The occupancy threshold may be any value set in advance, for example, may be 50%, 80%, or 90%.

For example, the first radio resource may include a plurality of time domain symbols, a ratio of a number of time domain symbols occupied by the terminal device to a number of time domain symbols included in the first radio resource may be used as an occupancy rate of the first radio resource, and if the occupancy rate is less than or equal to an occupancy rate threshold, a resource usage state of the first radio resource may be the idle state; if the occupancy is greater than the occupancy threshold, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be the non-idle state.

In this way, the resource usage of the first radio resource may be indicated by the idle state or the non-idle state.

In some embodiments, the first parameter domain may include at least one first indication bit, which may be used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

The first parameter field may include a number of first indication bits greater than or equal to a number of first radio resources in the CG period, and one first indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status of one first radio resource. For example, the value of the first indication bit is a first numerical value (e.g., 1), and may be used to indicate that the resource usage state of the first radio resource is a specific state (e.g., an occupied state or an idle state); the value of the first indication bit is a second value (e.g., 0) and can be used to indicate that the first radio resource is in a non-specific state (e.g., unoccupied state or unoccupied state).

The specific state may be the occupied state or the idle state, and the first value and the second value are not equal, for example, the first value may be 1, the second value may be 0, or vice versa, the first value may be 0, and the second value may be 1, which is not limited in the present disclosure.

For example, the network device allocates N first radio resources to the terminal device in the CG period, and the number of bits (which may also be referred to as the number of bits or the bit size bitsize) of the first indication bits included in the first parameter field may be N, that is, the first parameter and the number of bits including N first indication bits, one first indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to one first radio resource. Taking N equal to 4 as an example, if the value of the first parameter domain composed of 4 first indication bits is 1100, it can be determined that the resource usage states of the first and second first radio resources are specific states; the resource usage status of the third and fourth first radio resources is a non-specific status.

Thus, the first indication bit in the first parameter field indicates the resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

In other embodiments, the first parameter domain may include an index corresponding to at least one first radio resource, and resource usage states of the at least one first radio resource are the same.

For example, the index is used to indicate N first radio resources, where N may be any positive integer, and the resource usage states of the N first radio resources are the same, for example, may be all occupied states or all idle states.

The index may be a row index in a preset resource index table, each row in the preset resource index table may correspond to an index of at least one first radio resource, the network device may allocate 4 first radio resources to the terminal device in the CG period, the first row of the preset resource index table may include the first radio resource 1 and the first radio resource 2, the second row of the preset resource index table may include the first radio resource 2 and the first radio resource 3, the third row of the preset resource index table may include the first radio resource 2, the first radio resource 3 and the first radio resource 4, and so on, the preset resource index table may include all permutation combinations (up to 24 rows) of the 4 first radio resources at most, or the preset resource index table may include partial permutation combinations (less than 24 rows) of the 4 first radio resources at most.

It should be noted that, the preset resource index table may be predefined by a protocol, or may be preconfigured by a network device and sent to a terminal device.

Thus, the index in the first parameter domain indicates the resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

By adopting the method, the terminal equipment sends the first message to the network equipment, wherein the first message can comprise a first parameter domain, the first parameter domain can be used for indicating the resource use state of at least one first wireless resource in the configuration authorization CG period, and the first wireless resource can be the wireless resource which is allocated to the terminal equipment by the network equipment based on the configuration authorization CG transmission mode. In this way, the terminal device can report the resource usage status of the first radio resource to the network device, so that the network device can flexibly use and schedule the first radio resource according to the resource usage status, and the utilization rate of the radio resource allocated based on the CG transmission mode is improved.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first message may include a first parameter field and a second parameter field, where the first parameter field may be used to indicate a resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource; the second parameter field may be configured to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to the second radio resource; the second radio resource may be a subset of the first radio resource.

In some embodiments, the first radio resource may be a physical uplink shared channel (CG PUSCH) TO configure grant, the second radio resource may be a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) SUB-transmission occasion (SUB-Transmission occasion, SUB-TO) CG PUSCH SUB-TO configure grant CG, or may be simply referred TO as SUB-TO, the SUB-TO may be a subset of TO, and one TO may include one or more SUB-TO.

In other embodiments, the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource may be an idle state or an occupied state. If there are a plurality of second radio resources, the resource usage states corresponding to the different second radio resources may be the same or different.

In one implementation, the idle state may be used to indicate that none of the second radio resources are occupied.

In one implementation, the occupancy state may be used to indicate that the second radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

The second radio resource may include one time domain symbol or a plurality of time domain symbols, for example. If a part of or all of the time domain symbols of the second radio resource are occupied, the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource may be an occupied state; if all of the plurality of time domain symbols of the second radio resource are unoccupied, the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource may be an idle state.

In this way, the resource usage state of the second radio resource can be indicated by the idle state or the occupied state.

Note that, the occupancy state of the second radio resource may also be referred to as a second occupancy state; the idle state of the second radio resource may also be referred to as a second idle state.

In some embodiments, the first parameter domain may include N first indication bits, where N may be any natural number, and one first indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage state corresponding to one first radio resource.

Further, the second parameter domain may include M second indication bits, and likewise, M may be any natural number, and the sum of M and N may be equal to the number of indication bits; the number of indication bits may be a value preset by the terminal device, or the number of indication bits may be a value preset by the network device and transmitted to the terminal device. The indication number of bits may be used to indicate a total number of bits of the first and second parameter domains. The number of indication bits may be any natural number.

In some embodiments, the number of indication bits may also be any positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and N may also be any positive integer greater than or equal to 1.

In some embodiments, the second parameter domain may include at least one second indication bit, wherein one second indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status of one second radio resource. The second radio resource is determined by any one of:

In the first mode, each first radio resource is divided according to the bit number of the second indication bits, so as to obtain at least one second radio resource.

In some embodiments, the terminal device may group the second indication bits according to the number of the first radio resources, and divide each first radio resource according to the number of bits of each group of the second indication bits, to obtain at least one second radio resource.

In some embodiments, the terminal device may determine the first packet number second indication bits corresponding to each first radio resource according to the number of the first radio resources and the bit number of the second indication bits included in the second parameter field, and divide each first radio resource according to the first packet number to obtain the first packet number second radio resources.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a first radio resource and a second radio resource according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 3, if the number of bits of the second indication bits is 10, that is, the second parameter field includes 10 second indication bits, each first radio resource may be divided into 5 parts, resulting in a total of 10 second radio resources. Each second indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status of one of the second radio resources.

And dividing the third wireless resource according to the bit number of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the fourth wireless resource is obtained by combining at least one first wireless resource.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating another first radio resource and a second radio resource according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 4, if the number of bits of the second indication bits is 10, that is, the second parameter field includes 10 second indication bits, the 2 first radio resources may be combined to obtain a third radio resource, and the third radio resource may be divided into 10 parts to obtain a total of 10 second radio resources. Each second indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status of one of the second radio resources.

In some embodiments, the manner of combining the at least one first radio resource may be concatenation, e.g. by concatenating a plurality of first radio resources end to end in time order to obtain the third radio resource.

And dividing each fourth wireless resource according to the bit number of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the fourth wireless resource is a first wireless resource in which the resource use state is an occupied state or an idle state.

For example, the fourth radio resource may be the first radio resource whose resource usage state is a specific state, which may be any one of an occupied state or an idle state.

In some embodiments, the terminal device may group the second indication bits according to the number of the fourth radio resources, and divide each fourth radio resource according to the number of bits of each group of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second radio resource, where the fourth radio resource is at least one first radio resource whose resource usage state is a specific state (for example, an occupied state or an idle state).

In some embodiments, the terminal device may determine a second packet number of second indication bits corresponding to each fourth radio resource according to the number of fourth radio resources and the number of bits of the second indication bits included in the second parameter field, and divide each fourth radio resource according to the second packet number to obtain the second packet number of second radio resources.

In some embodiments, the particular state may be an occupied state, which may be used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

Wherein the occupancy status may be used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially or fully occupied.

It should be noted that, the manner in which the terminal device occupies the first radio resource may include using the first radio resource to perform signal transmission, and may also include notifying the network device to reserve the first radio resource, but the terminal device does not actually use the first radio resource to perform signal transmission.

In other embodiments, the particular state may be an idle state, which may be used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resource; alternatively, the idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first radio resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold.

In one implementation, the idle state may be used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resources.

In another implementation, the idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first radio resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold. The occupancy threshold may be any value set in advance, for example, may be 50%, 80%, or 90%.

Note that the third embodiment is similar to the first embodiment in terms of the division, and is different in that the object of the third embodiment is a fourth radio resource, that is, a first radio resource whose resource usage status is in a specific status, and not all of the first radio resources.

For example, if the number of first radio resources configured by the network device for the terminal device in one CG period is N, or the number of repetitions of the first radio resources in one CG period is N, the first parameter domain may include N first indication bits, where one first indication bit is used to indicate a resource usage status of one first radio resource. For example, n=4, where the first parameter field is 1100, it may be characterized that the first two first radio resources are in a specific state and the second two first radio resources are not in a specific state in the CG period. The second parameter field may include M second indication bits, and if the first radio resources of the specific state indicated by the first parameter field are M first radio resources of the specific state, the first radio resources (i.e., the fourth radio resources) of each specific state may be divided into P second radio resources, where P may be a positive integer obtained by rounding up the quotient of M and M, that is, p=round dup (M/M), where round dup represents rounding up. Each second radio resource may include K time domain symbols or K-1 time domain symbols, where K may be a positive integer obtained by rounding up the quotient of L and P, that is, p=round dup (L/P), where round dup represents the number of time domain symbols included in the first radio resource.

In a fourth aspect, a fifth radio resource is divided according to the number of bits of the second indication bits, so as to obtain at least one second radio resource, where the fifth radio resource is a radio resource obtained by combining at least one fourth radio resource. That is, the fifth radio resource is a radio resource obtained by combining the first radio resources whose resource usage state is a specific state (e.g., an occupied state or an idle state).

The fourth embodiment is similar to the second embodiment in that the fourth embodiment is different in that the object of the fourth embodiment is the fifth radio resource, and not all of the first radio resources are used.

For example, if the number of first radio resources configured by the network device for the terminal device in one CG period is N, or the number of repetitions of the first radio resources in one CG period is N, the first parameter domain may include N first indication bits, where one first indication bit is used to indicate a resource usage status of one first radio resource. For example, n=4, where the first parameter field is 1100, it may be characterized that the first two first radio resources are in a specific state and the second two first radio resources are not in a specific state in the CG period. The second parameter domain may include M second indication bits, and if the first radio resources indicated by the first parameter domain and having the specific resource usage status are M first radio resources, the M first radio resources may be combined (e.g. cascaded) to obtain a fourth radio resource, and the fourth radio resource is divided into M second radio resources. Each second radio resource may include S time domain symbols or S-1 time domain symbols, where S may be a positive integer obtained by rounding up the quotient of T and M, that is, s=round dup (T/M), where round dup represents the number of time domain symbols included in the fourth radio resource.

In this way, the terminal device may determine the second radio resource in any of the above manners, and indicate the resource occupation condition of the second radio resource through the second parameter domain.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource indicated by the first parameter domain is not the specific state (for example, the occupied state or the idle state), and the second parameter domain may not be included in the first message, or the second parameter domain is an invalid value.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the first message may not include the first parameter domain, or the first parameter domain is an invalid value, and the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource is not a specific state (for example, an occupied state or an idle state).

In one implementation, the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource indicated by the first parameter domain is not the specific state (for example, the occupied state or the idle state), and the first message may not include the first parameter domain.

In another implementation, the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource indicated by the first parameter domain is not the specific state (e.g., the occupied state or the idle state), and the first parameter domain in the first message is an invalid value.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment. The method may be performed by a network device in the communication system described above. As shown in fig. 5, the method may include:

s501, the network equipment receives a first message sent by the terminal equipment.

Wherein the first message may include a first parameter field.

S502, the network equipment determines the resource use state of at least one first wireless resource in the configuration authorization CG period according to the first parameter domain of the first message.

Wherein the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on the configuration grant CG.

In some embodiments, the network device may allocate N first radio resources in one configuration grant CG period to the terminal device, where the terminal device determines, according to the configuration of the network device, the N first radio resources in one configuration grant CG period, and autonomously selects to use the N first radio resources for uplink transmission or in the configuration grant CG period. Wherein, N may be any number greater than or equal to 1, for example, N may be 4. Similarly, the first radio resource may also be referred TO as CG PUSCH TO or CG TO or TO.

In one implementation, the network device may send a second message to the terminal device, and notify the terminal device of all information corresponding to the first radio resource through the second message.

In another implementation manner, the network device may send a second message and a third message to the terminal device, notify, through the second message, a part of information corresponding to the first radio resource, and notify, through the third message, another part of information corresponding to the first radio resource.

In this way, the network device may allocate N first radio resources in a configuration grant CG period to the terminal device by any of the foregoing manners.

In this way, the resource usage of the first radio resource can be indicated by the occupied state and the unoccupied state.

In yet another implementation, the resource usage state of the first radio resource may be an idle state and a non-idle state.

For example, the idle state may be used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resources; the non-idle state may be used to indicate that the first radio resources are fully occupied.

For another example, the idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first radio resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold; the non-idle state may be used to indicate that the occupancy of the first radio resource is greater than an occupancy threshold. The occupancy threshold may be any value set in advance, for example, may be 50%, 80%, or 90%.

In this way, the resource usage of the first radio resource can be indicated by the idle state and the non-idle state.

Note that, if one configuration grant CG period includes a plurality of first radio resources, resource usage states of different first radio resources may be the same or different.

It should be further noted that, for the description of the above-mentioned occupied state, idle state, unoccupied state or unoccupied state, reference may be made to the specific description of the terminal device side in the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure, which is not repeated here.

The first parameter field may include a number of first indication bits that is greater than or equal to a number of first radio resources within the CG period. A first indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status of a first radio resource. For example, the value of the first indication bit is a first numerical value (e.g., 1), and may be used to indicate that the resource usage state of the first radio resource is a specific state (e.g., an occupied state or an idle state); the value of the first indication bit is a second value (e.g., 0) and can be used to indicate that the first radio resource is in a non-specific state (e.g., unoccupied state or unoccupied state).

The specific state may include the occupied state or the idle state, and the first value and the second value are not equal, for example, the first value may be 1, the second value may be 0, or vice versa, the first value may be 0, and the second value may be 1, which is not limited in this disclosure.

For example, the network device allocates N first radio resources to the terminal device in the CG period, and the number of bits (which may also be referred to as a bit size) of the first indication bits included in the first parameter field may be N, that is, the first parameter and the first indication bits including N first indication bits, where one first indication bit may be used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to one first radio resource. Taking N equal to 4 as an example, the value of the first parameter domain formed by the 4 first indication bits is 1100, so that the resource use states of the first and second first wireless resources can be ensured to be specific states; the resource usage status of the third and fourth first radio resources is a non-specific status.

For a detailed description of the index, reference may be made to the description of the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure related to the terminal device, which is not repeated here.

Thus, by the index in the first parameter domain, the resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource can be determined.

By adopting the method, the network equipment receives the first message sent by the terminal equipment and determines the resource use state of at least one first wireless resource in the configuration authorization CG period according to the first parameter domain of the first message. Wherein the first message includes a first parameter field, and the first radio resource grants the CG to the terminal device based on the configuration for the network device. In this way, the network device can determine the resource usage status of the first radio resource, so as to flexibly use and schedule the first radio resource, and improve the utilization rate of the radio resource allocated based on the CG transmission mode.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment. The method may be performed by a network device in the communication system described above. As shown in fig. 6, the method may include:

The first message may include a first parameter domain and a second parameter domain, where the first parameter domain may be used to indicate a resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource; the second parameter field may be configured to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to the second radio resource; the second radio resource may be a subset of the first radio resource.

S503, the network equipment determines the resource use state of at least one second wireless resource in the configuration authorization CG period according to the second parameter domain of the first message.

It should be noted that, under the condition of no contradiction, the present embodiment may be combined with the foregoing embodiment or implementation manner of the present disclosure and various alternatives thereof, and the specific implementation manner of the foregoing steps in the present embodiment may also refer to the description in the foregoing embodiment of the present disclosure, which is not repeated herein.

In some embodiments, the first radio resource may be a physical uplink shared channel transmission occasion CG PUSCH TO for which authorization is configured, and may also be simply referred TO as TO; the second radio resource may be configured authorized physical uplink shared channel SUB-transmission time CG PUSCH SUB-TO, or may be referred TO as SUB-TO for short; the SUB-TO may be a subset of TO, and a TO may include one or more SUB-TO.

In some embodiments, the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource may be an idle state or an occupied state. If there are a plurality of second radio resources, the resource usage states corresponding to the different second radio resources may be the same or different.

Further, the second parameter field may include M second indication bits, M may be any natural number, and a sum value of M and N may be equal to the number of indication bits; the number of indication bits may be a value preset by the terminal device, or the number of indication bits may be a value preset by the network device and transmitted to the terminal device. The indication number of bits may be used to indicate a total number of bits of the first and second parameter domains. The number of indication bits may be any natural number.

In some embodiments, the network device may group the second indication bits according to the number of the first radio resources, and divide each first radio resource according to the number of bits of each group of the second indication bits, to obtain at least one second radio resource.

In some embodiments, the network device may determine, according to the number of first radio resources and the number of bits of the second indication bits included in the second parameter field, a first packet number of second indication bits corresponding to each first radio resource, and divide each first radio resource according to the first packet number to obtain the first packet number of second radio resources.

In some embodiments, the network device may group the second indication bits according to the number of the fourth radio resources, and divide each fourth radio resource according to the number of bits of each group of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second radio resource, where the fourth radio resource is at least one first radio resource whose resource usage state is a specific state (for example, an occupied state or an idle state).

In some embodiments, the network device may determine, according to the number of fourth radio resources and the number of bits of the second indication bits included in the second parameter field, a second packet number of second indication bits corresponding to each fourth radio resource, and divide each fourth radio resource according to the second packet number to obtain the second packet number of second radio resources.

It should be noted that, the specific implementation manner of the first to fourth embodiments may refer to the description in the foregoing embodiments of the disclosure, and will not be repeated herein.

In this way, the network device may determine the second radio resource in any of the above manners, and determine the resource occupation situation of the second radio resource according to the second parameter domain.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, in a case where the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource indicated by the first parameter domain is not the specific state (for example, the occupied state or the idle state), the second parameter domain may not be included in the first message, or the second parameter domain is an invalid value.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the network device may determine that the resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource is not a specific state (e.g. an occupied state or an idle state) if the first message does not include the first parameter field, or the first parameter field is an invalid value.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a method of determining a resource status according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 7, the method may include:

s701, the terminal equipment sends a first message to the network equipment.

The first message may include a first parameter field, where the first parameter field may be used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

S702, the network equipment determines the resource use state of at least one first wireless resource in the configuration authorization CG period according to the first parameter domain of the first message.

In some embodiments, the network device may further determine a resource usage status of at least one second radio resource within the configuration grant CG period from a second parameter field of the first message.

In this way, the network device determines a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource within the configuration grant CG period based on the first parameter field of the first message. Wherein the first message includes a first parameter field, and the first radio resource grants the CG to the terminal device based on the configuration for the network device. In this way, the network device can determine the resource usage status of the first radio resource, so as to flexibly use and schedule the first radio resource, and improve the utilization rate of the radio resource allocated based on the CG transmission mode.

In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure further provides a communication system, which may include a terminal device and a network device, wherein the terminal device may perform the method for determining a resource status related to the terminal device in the foregoing embodiments of the present disclosure; the network device may perform the method of determining a resource status related to the network device in the above embodiments.

Fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a terminal device 150 according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 8, the terminal device 150 may include:

a transmission module 2101 configured to transmit a first message to a network device; the first message includes a first parameter field, where the first parameter field is used to indicate a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource in a configuration grant CG period, where the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal device by the network device based on a configuration grant CG transmission mode.

In some embodiments, the first parameter field includes at least one first indication bit, where the first indication bit is used to indicate a resource usage state corresponding to the first radio resource.

In some embodiments, the first parameter field includes an index corresponding to the at least one first radio resource, and resource usage states of the at least one first radio resource are the same.

In some embodiments, the first message further includes a second parameter field, where the second parameter field is used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to a second radio resource; the second radio resources are a subset of the first radio resources.

In some embodiments, the second parameter field includes at least one second indication bit, one of the second indication bits being used to indicate a resource usage status of one of the second radio resources.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

grouping the second indication bits according to the number of the first radio resources, and dividing each first radio resource according to the bit number of each group of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second radio resource; or,

dividing third wireless resources according to the bit number of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the third wireless resources are obtained by combining at least one first wireless resource; or,

grouping the second indication bits according to the number of fourth wireless resources, and dividing each fourth wireless resource according to the bit number of each group of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the fourth wireless resource is at least one first wireless resource in which the resource use state is an occupied state or an idle state; or,

Dividing a fifth wireless resource according to the bit number of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the fifth wireless resource is obtained by combining at least one fourth wireless resource.

In some embodiments, the occupancy state is used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

In some embodiments, the idle state is used to indicate that there are unoccupied radio resources in the first radio resources; or, the idle state is used for indicating that the occupancy rate of the first radio resource is less than or equal to an occupancy rate threshold.

In some embodiments, the resource usage state corresponding to the first wireless resource is not the occupied state or the idle state; wherein the first message does not include a first parameter field, or the first parameter field is an invalid value.

In some embodiments, the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource is an idle state or an occupied state; wherein:

the idle state is used for indicating that the second wireless resources are unoccupied;

the occupancy state is used to indicate that the second radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

In some embodiments of the present invention, in some embodiments,

the first parameter domain comprises N first indication bits, and one first indication bit is used for indicating a resource use state corresponding to the first wireless resource; the N is a natural number;

the second parameter domain comprises M second indicating bits, M is a natural number, and the sum of M and N is the number of the indicating bits; the number of the indication bits is a value preset by the terminal equipment, or the number of the indication bits is a value preset by the network equipment and sent to the terminal equipment.

In some embodiments, the first radio resource is a physical uplink shared channel transmission occasion CG PUSCH TO for which a grant is configured, and the second radio resource is a physical uplink shared channel SUB-transmission occasion CG PUSCH SUB-TO for which a grant is configured.

Fig. 9 is a block diagram of a network device 160, according to an example embodiment. As shown in fig. 9, the network device 160 may include:

a receiving module 2201 configured to receive a first message sent by a terminal device; wherein the first message comprises a first parameter field;

a processing module 2202 configured to determine a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource within a configuration grant CG period from the first parameter domain; the first radio resource is a radio resource allocated to the terminal equipment by the network equipment based on a configuration authorization CG transmission mode.

In some embodiments, the first message further includes a second parameter field, where the second parameter field is used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to a second radio resource; the second radio resources are a subset of the first radio resources; the processing module 2202 is further configured to determine a resource usage status corresponding to the second radio resource according to the second parameter field.

In some embodiments, the method further comprises:

In some embodiments, the determining the resource usage status of the at least one first radio resource within the configuration grant CG period according to the first parameter domain includes:

and determining that the resource usage state corresponding to the first wireless resource is not the occupied state or the idle state when the first message does not include the first parameter domain or the first parameter domain is an invalid value.

In some embodiments of the present invention, in some embodiments,

the first parameter domain comprises N first indication bits, and one first indication bit is used for indicating a resource use state corresponding to one first wireless resource; the N is a natural number;

The specific manner in which the various modules perform the operations in the apparatus of the above embodiments have been described in detail in connection with the embodiments of the method, and will not be described in detail herein.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram of a communication device, according to an example embodiment. The communication device 3000 may be a terminal device in the communication system shown in fig. 1 or a network device in the communication system.

Referring to fig. 10, the apparatus 3000 may include one or more of the following components: a processing component 3002, a memory 3004, and a communication component 3006.

The processing component 3002 may be used to control overall operations of the apparatus 3000, such as operations associated with display, telephone calls, data communications, camera operations, and recording operations. The processing component 3002 may include one or more processors 3020 to execute instructions to perform all or part of the steps of the method of determining a resource status described above. Further, the processing component 3002 may include one or more modules to facilitate interactions between the processing component 3002 and other components. For example, the processing component 3002 may include a multimedia module to facilitate interaction between the multimedia component and the processing component 3002.

The memory 3004 is configured to store various types of data to support operations at the apparatus 3000. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on device 3000, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, and the like. The memory 3004 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disk.

The communication component 3006 is configured to facilitate communication between the apparatus 3000 and other devices in a wired or wireless manner. The device 3000 may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as Wi-Fi,2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, 6G, NB-IOT, eMTC, etc., or a combination thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 3006 receives broadcast signals or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 3006 further includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short range communications. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus 3000 may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), digital Signal Processors (DSPs), digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or other electronic elements for performing the above-described methods of determining a resource status.

The apparatus 3000 may be a stand-alone electronic device or may be part of a stand-alone electronic device, for example, in one embodiment, the electronic device may be an integrated circuit (Integrated Circuit, IC) or a chip, where the integrated circuit may be an IC or may be a set of multiple ICs; the chip may include, but is not limited to, the following: GPU (Graphics Processing Unit, graphics processor), CPU (Central Processing Unit ), FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array, programmable logic array), DSP (Digital Signal Processor ), ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, application specific integrated circuit), SOC (System on Chip, SOC, system on Chip or System on Chip), etc. The integrated circuits or chips described above may be used to execute executable instructions (or code) to implement the methods of determining resource status described above. The executable instructions may be stored on the integrated circuit or chip or may be retrieved from another device or apparatus, such as the integrated circuit or chip including a processor, memory, and interface for communicating with other devices. The executable instructions may be stored in the processor, which when executed by the processor implements the method of determining a resource status described above; alternatively, the integrated circuit or chip may receive executable instructions through the interface and transmit them to the processor for execution to implement the method of determining a resource status described above.

In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure also provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method of determining a resource status provided by the present disclosure. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions, for example, the memory 3004 including instructions executable by the processor 3020 of the apparatus 3000 to perform the method of determining a resource status described above. For example, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium may be ROM, random Access Memory (RAM), CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device, etc.

In another exemplary embodiment, a computer program product is also provided, comprising a computer program executable by a programmable apparatus, the computer program having code portions for performing the above-described method of determining a resource status when executed by the programmable apparatus.

Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure. This application is intended to cover any adaptations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following, in general, the principles of the disclosure and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the disclosure pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.

It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown in the drawings, and that various modifications and changes may be effected without departing from the scope thereof. The scope of the present disclosure is limited only by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method of determining a status of a resource, performed by a terminal device, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter field comprises a first indication bit for indicating a resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter field includes an index corresponding to the at least one first radio resource, and wherein resource usage status of the at least one first radio resource is the same.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message further comprises a second parameter field, the second parameter field being used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to a second radio resource; the second radio resources are a subset of the first radio resources.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second parameter field comprises at least one second indicator bit, one of the second indicator bits indicating a resource usage status of one of the second radio resources.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

Dividing a fifth wireless resource according to the bit number of the second indication bits to obtain at least one second wireless resource, wherein the fifth wireless resource is a wireless resource obtained by combining at least one fourth wireless resource.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the occupancy status is used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of providing the first layer comprises,

the idle state is used for indicating that unoccupied wireless resources exist in the first wireless resources; or,

the idle state is to indicate that an occupancy of the first radio resource is less than or equal to an occupancy threshold.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of providing the first layer comprises,

the resource usage state corresponding to the first wireless resource is not the occupied state or the idle state, wherein the first message does not include a first parameter domain, or the first parameter domain is an invalid value.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource is an idle state or an occupied state; wherein:

11. The method of claim 4, wherein the step of determining the position of the first electrode is performed,

12. The method according TO any of claims 4 TO 10, wherein the first radio resource is a configuration-granted physical uplink shared channel transmission occasion CG PUSCH TO and the second radio resource is a configuration-granted physical uplink shared channel SUB-transmission occasion CG PUSCH SUB-TO.

13. A method of determining a status of a resource, performed by a network device, the method comprising:

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first parameter field comprises at least one first indication bit for indicating a resource usage status corresponding to the first radio resource.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first parameter field includes an index corresponding to the at least one first radio resource, and wherein resource usage status of the at least one first radio resource is the same.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first message further comprises a second parameter field, the second parameter field being used to indicate a resource usage status corresponding to a second radio resource; the second radio resources are a subset of the first radio resources; the method further comprises the steps of:

And determining a resource use state corresponding to the second wireless resource according to the second parameter domain.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the second parameter field includes at least one second indication bit, one of the second indication bits being used to indicate a resource usage status of one of the second radio resources.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the occupancy status is used to indicate that the first radio resource is partially occupied or fully occupied.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of providing the first information comprises,

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the determining a resource usage status of at least one first radio resource within a configuration grant CG period based on the first parameter domain comprises:

22. The method of claim 16, wherein the resource usage state corresponding to the second radio resource is an idle state or an occupied state; wherein:

23. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of determining the position of the probe comprises,

24. The method according TO any of the claims 16 TO 23, wherein the first radio resource is a configuration-granted physical uplink shared channel transmission occasion CG PUSCH TO and the second radio resource is a configuration-granted physical uplink shared channel SUB-transmission occasion CG PUSCH SUB-TO.

25. A terminal device, characterized in that the terminal device comprises:

26. A network device, the network device comprising:

27. A communication device, the communication device comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 12 or the processor is configured to perform the steps of the method of any one of claims 13 to 24.

28. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer program instructions, which when executed by a processor, perform the steps of the method of any of claims 1 to 12 or which when executed by a processor, perform the steps of the method of any of claims 13 to 24.

29. A communication system, comprising:

a terminal device performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 12;

a network device performing the method of any of claims 13 to 24.